Trump Is Fixated On MS-13. But He's Making It Harder For Its Victims To Get Asylum.

[DonViejo]

She came to the United States to escape MS-13. Now she has to get approval to stay.

By Elise Foley
12/26/2018 05:45 am ET

When Angelica was 17 years old, MS-13 gang members killed her father. Nine years later, they tried to kill her, too.

The now-29-year-old Salvadoran woman, who is using a pseudonym for safety reasons, fled to the United States to seek asylum after a botched attempt on her life in 2014, bringing her then-6-year-old son and 16-year-old sister with her. “I couldn’t wait there to see how they killed me or my son,” Angelica said in an interview in Spanish about her decision to leave her home country. But four years later, she’s facing a new challenge: a U.S. administration that’s both intensely focused on the gang that terrorized her and on keeping asylum-seekers like her out.

In his efforts to drum up support for his strict immigration enforcement, President Donald Trump has fixated on the violence perpetrated by members of MS-13. Vastly overstating the scope of MS-13 within the U.S, he has called gang members “animals” and described violence perpetrated by them in gruesome detail in rallies and interviews.

But at the same time, his administration has made it significantly more difficult for the majority of the gang’s victims ― Central Americans like Angelica ― to find safety in the U.S. Trump’s administration changed court precedent to discourage the approval of asylum requests based on gang violence. It has separated 2,000 kids from their parents who’ve crossed the border without authorization, limited the number of people who could approach ports of entry to ask for help each day and attempted to ban people who crossed the border illegally from getting those protections at all.

Last week, the administration took the extreme step of announcing it would force many asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their claims are considered ― a lengthy process that could leave them there for months or years.

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[Javaman]

1. the orange asshole is a racist and thinks anyone with a darker shade of color other than lily white

is a member of MS-13.

he gives zero fucks, has no empathy and is psychotic.

[MineralMan]

2. Trump thinks that everyone who speaks Spanish as their first language

is part of MS-13. What Trump wants is a complete closure of our southern border and permanent labor camps for Spanish-speakers who are already inside our borders. From those, he'd hire the inmates out to Republican businesses for day labor at slave wages. That's what Trump wants. He can't have that, of course, so he's pushing his bogus border wall.

Trump wants a closed society for which he is the sole ruler. He lives in a dream world inside his addled brain. There is no reasoning with Donald J. Trump. He is incapable of reason at this point.

The first goal of the new Congress should be to impeach and remove him from office. Even Republicans know that, but they're not sure if they can get away with it and still keep their phony baloney jobs.